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Kate Winslet’s husband and I

June 6, 2013 By Ellen 8 Comments

Once upon a time I spent the goodly lump of a winter on a yacht with Ned Rocknroll – current Mr Winslet and dad-to-be. Only then he didn’t have such a memorable name.Me and Ned, sailing off into the sunrise… along with a dozen or so other people. Let me explain.In the mid 1990s I spent […]

143/365 Crocs: not so ugly after all

May 23, 2013 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Boat shoes made by Crocs Looking down at my feet! Take a picture of my shoes too, mummy. What do we know about Crocs then? Erm… Comfy, plastic, wide and ugly. Maybe that’s how it used to be, but the rubber clog has had a makeover. Now they do all sorts of other footery while […]

Once upon a time, mummy was a person too

April 24, 2013 By Ellen 19 Comments

From the top of a mountain, you can see where the dragons live (A true story for my children)Once upon a time, very long ago – in fact, so many years ago, it may well have been a land far, far away – there lived a woman. She looked very like your mother only she […]

They had me at “we’ll supply you with Soreen”…

May 3, 2012 By Ellen 6 Comments

Inboxes are funny old things. One minute they’re full of once-in-a-lunchtime offers to do something you don’t fancy for a few quid off and dodgy press releases, and the next well there’s something wonderful. And on one day last month, it was an email inviting me to test and help promote Soreen in exchange for free […]